So, I'm almost running out of pirate figs, Porto Pulpo is nearing completion except for a ship, a ship/house and an actual board, and some details and... oh well, you know what I mean... and I'm in need of something new to occupy myself.

So the logical next step presented itself.With all those pirates, and a nice harbour town for them to run amok in, I need some baddies, some nasties to occupy them.So why not make an assortment of creatures of the deep?

It all started with mermaid (with octopus tentacles in stead of a fishtail) I painted up for my clubs' recurring painting compo (will post piccies once the compy is over).I was only going to make her, honest, but then inspiration struck...

So I've been on the lookout for more figs I can re-use as deep ones (of all sorts)

And I stumbled upon this freebie in our club, he's from the game Monsterpocalypse (he was a translucent pink by the way, can't imagine why they'd do such a detailed fig and then not paint it)and the plastic is seriously bendy. I decided to try and paint him anyway, and this is how he came out :

Somewhere in a near future : Tyranid Spore Mines which 'll get converted intyo/painted up like Jellyfish/Medusa's6 Epic Tyranid tanks which look a lot like shellfish (kind of twisted crabs/lobsters)

From there on it'll be whatever crosses my path on the interwebs/fig fairs/obscure dusty figurine shops

They used to play Monpoc the same night we did Mordheim back in the day. I was eyeing a couple of the monsters when the store was supporting the game and then one day it was all gone because the game died.

Anyway nice job! I look forward to the rest of your acquisitions for bad guys.

They look okay, but I was going for something darker, more menacing, and if I can help it (I know I'm making life difficult for myself) without any weaponry (ecxept perhaps a trident).I really want them to be denizens of the deep, coming out of their hiding holes.

Slowly getting back into my painting-groove after waay too much time without acrylic-fingerstains, pva-stains on my clothes and xacto-cutting wounds...

I found this 'little' gem on cryptlock.de (for those who like female slave-figs, check 'm out!) :Next to a 28mm pirate-wench so you can have an idea of the size

In the new Freebooters' Fate expansion there's a scenario with zombie-squid. The purrfect opportunity to get ideas for including my deep ones into piratey games of all sorts...On top of that, Freebooter miniatures released a set of squids... Nice! So I bought those too and painted them up (maybe a tad wee bitty too bright).And a size-comparison with the same wench :And here you can see the entire aquatic invasion up until now : Seeing the piccie above I realised/decided that the cthulhu-beastie needs a rebasing on a round base.

That looks to be a Portugese Man of War. The paint job on the Big Guy & his smaller Chums are BEAUTIFUL with some very striking color choices. The Group Portrait is WONDERFUL. VERY WELL DONE all around!

It reminds me that I haven't seen anything about the Deep Wars game over on L.A.F. in awhile. That was starting to become popular, & the use of aquarium scenery made it a visually interesting game.

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Sad? Of course he's sad! He's the only hard-shell amongst a load of jellies

Maybe, due to his size, I'll need to make up something special for his rules (like he can't really wound a fig, but you get a movement reduction, or he makes you jump in pain (possibly moving you out of cover and into a LoS, or out of a window even, something like that)

It all started with mermaid (with octopus tentacles in stead of a fishtail) I painted up for my clubs' recurring painting compo (will post piccies once the compy is over).I was only going to make her, honest, but then inspiration struck...

Well then, 5 months later, I’ve finally recuperated her…Bear in mind, the contest for which I painted her up had as a rule : “muted colours : use four colours or less”So I took Chaos Black, Skull White, Liche Purple and Blood Red, and this is the result :

Already assembled and primed the next gribbly, a murene (I think the english word is Morey Eal) and next week I'll be getting some Epic Armageddon Nid tanks to 'count as' crustaceans

The Mermaid turned out SPLENDIDLY despite the limited palette; the colors you chose, however, work very well with the subject the fuchsia/red violet look TERRIFIC. She looks more in the order of a Night Mermaid with all those tentacles. GREAT WORK!

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the Moray Eel...nasty critters.

_________________"I'd NEVER join a club that would have me as a member." Groucho Marx

She looks more in the order of a Night Mermaid with all those tentacles.

Indeed, her appearance made me choose for the dark, ominous colours, which contrast very nicely with her pale skin. It was an interesting style-exercise which posed me quite the number of little problems whilst painting her up, especially since the 4-colour rule was for the whole fig, base included